Edith Stein Quotes on God
Edith Stein was a German philosopher, phenomenologist, and Carmelite nun. This page collects quotes attributed to Edith Stein on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“All that comes to me from God is a sign of His love.”
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Attributed to Edith Stein:
“The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must go out of oneself.”
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“God is truth. All who seek truth seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.”
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“Collected Works Vol. IV. Part 1 : Before the Face of God , Ch.1 : "On the History and Spirit of Carmel”
What is meant by "the Law of the Lord"? Psalm 118 which we pray every Sunday and on solemnities at Prime, is entirely filled with the command to know the Law and to be led by it through life. The Psalmist was certainly thinking of the Law of the Old Covenant. Knowing it actually did require life-long study and fulfilling it, life-long exertion of the will. But the Lord has freed us from the yoke o -
“Only the person blinded by the passion of controversy could deny that woman in soul and body is formed for a particular purpose. The clear and irrevocable world of Scripture declares what daily experience teaches from the beginning of the world: woman is destined to be wife and mother.”
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“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.”
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“Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession.”
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